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Among exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that seek to provide exposure to Japanese markets, ETFs that track the Nikkei are fairly rare. Many ETFs that track the Japanese market track the MSCI Japan Index, the Nasdaq AlphaDEX Japan Index, or the FTSE Japan 100% Hedged to USD Index.
We have selected three ETFs that track the performance of the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 with a market cap of at least $26 billion. This is most likely a long-term play for investors who also maintain a portfolio of ETFs that include many sectors other than the Japanese markets. (See also: How to Go Long or Short Japan via ETFs.)
The Nikkei began a long-term uptrend in 2013, and appears ready to test the resistance level at just over 20,000 that it set in 2015. Investors who want to take advantage of the uptrend may consider these three. All data is current as of June 21, 2017.
1. Deutsche X-trackers Japan JPX-Nikkei 400 Hedged Equity (JPNH)
JPNH tracks the JPX-Nikkei 400 Net Total Return USD Hedged Index. Most of the securities the fund follows are listed on the Jasdaq. In this order, it focuses on large-cap companies, mid-cap companies and emerging stocks or those likely to show high growth.
Because the fund is dollar-denominated, investors have less concern about price differences between the dollar and the Japanese yen. Very light volume indicates this fund may be difficult to sell if an investor wants to get out of it.
Assets Under Management: $3.53 million
Weighted Average Market Cap: $26.25 billion
Price / Earnings Ratio: 16.40
Price / Book Ratio: 1.38
Next Ex-Dividend Date: June 21, 2017
Number of Holdings: 238
2. iShares Currency Hedged JPX-Nikkei 400 (HJPX)
Like JPNH, this fund uses the JPX-Nikkei 400 Net Total Return USD Hedged Index as its benchmark. The stated goal of HJPX is to maintain a minimum of 90% of the fund’s assets in securities from the target index. The fund may also invest in instruments other than equities.
This fund is priced based on the U.S. dollar. There is no focus on a particular sector. Instead, HJPX follows Japanese securities in general. The light volume on this fund may prevent it from being as liquid as other funds.
Assets Under Management: $2.69 million
Weighted Average Market Cap: $26.94 billion
Price / Earnings Ratio:15.89
Price / Book Ratio: 1.36
Distribution Yield: 1.85%
Next Ex-Dividend Date: July 6, 2017
Number of Holdings: 396
3. iShares JPX-Nikkei 400 (JPXN)
For its benchmark, JPXN uses the JPX-Nikkei Index 400. This fund may, at any given time, invest in large-caps, mid-caps or small-caps in any combination.
The primary sectors are industrial companies, financial companies, and consumer discretionary companies. It is valued based on the Japanese yen and not the U.S. dollar.
Assets Under Management: $88.3 million
Weighted Average Market Cap: $26.94 billion
Price / Earnings Ratio: 15.89
Price / Book Ratio: 1.36
Distribution Yield: 1.86%
Next Ex-Dividend Date: June 20, 2017
Number of Holdings: 397
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Equities in developed markets outside the U.S. are among the world's best performing assets in 2017, a theme benefiting of slew exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Count Japan, Asia's second largest economy behind China, as among one the hottest developed markets. The iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ) is up 12 percent year to date, while the WisdomTree Japan Small-Cap Dividend ETF (DFJ) is higher by 15.1 percent. In either case, those performances are far superior to the just over 9 percent returned by the S&P 500.
Data suggest that U.S. investors are not overly impressed by the outperformance of Japanese stocks. Flows data for Japan ETFs, including EWJ, confirm as much. They would have been missing out on Friday, when the Topix index closed at its highest level since August 2015. The gauge as of Monday's close has a total return of 7.1 percent for 2017, or 13 percent in dollar terms. By comparison, the S&P 500 Index's return is 9.9 percent this year. Also eye-catching: the Nikkei 225 Stock Average has surpassed 20,000 for the first time since 2015, according to Bloomberg. (See also: Jumping for an Old Japan ETF.)
Apathy on display by U.S. investors toward Japan ETFs is arguably stunning at a time when Japanese stocks are inexpensive relative to the S&P 500 and U.S. investors are pouring into international ETFs. Year to date, four of the top 10 asset-gathering ETFs are international equity funds. That number has swelled to six in the second quarter. (See also: May ETF Flows: International, Tech Funds Lead.)
This year, investors have pulled nearly $397 million from EWJ, the largest Japan ETF. DFJ, an ETF that is trouncing its U.S.-focused small-cap rivals, has added $23.1 million in new assets. One reason that U.S. investors may be steering clear of Japan ETFs is the yen. With the U.S. dollar flailing this year, investors have looked for alternative safe-haven currencies, bidding the yen higher in the process. The CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY) is up 6.2 percent year to date, which could be causing concern among investors that think the strong Japanese currency will crimp the nation's export-driven economy.
Another challenge has been a continuing association of the Japanese market with the yen. As investors can readily see on certain days, when the yen falls, the Topix index tends to rise – thanks to the assumption a more competitive currency would inflate exporter earnings. What that narrative misses is a subtle change in Japan's domestic market, with the economy gradually shedding the legacy of deflation after a plunge in the unemployment rate, according to Bloomberg.
Neither DFJ nor EWJ are currency-hedged ETFs. (See also: Top 2 Currency-Hedged Japan ETFs.)

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Global equity markets on Thursday continued the positive theme generated in the last hour of Wall Street trade on Wednesday and pushed the Japanese Nikkei to the top of its four hour chart trading range at 9850.
The moves also moved the German DAX up to test yearly highs at 7458, with a six day session of trade that has added over 6% in value to the index. The S&P 500 also breached its yearly high, and at 1352 is now in a challenging price point area that offered both support and resistance during most of 2008.
However boisterous the sentiment seems to be in regard to equity risk valuations, there is one high volume exchange traded fund that is struggling to pay catch-up with equity market momentum. XLF, the financial sector ETF, created a long signal on Monday Apr 25 11 with a break above 16.10, and completed a 1% move higher to hit its target at 16.30 on Wednesday.
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Shorting the Russell as the market drops below support.
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Basically as long as the markets continue to drop, I will keep looking to short the Russell Futures, if they decide to start to rally back to the upside, I see the S&P 500 Futures have the path of least resistance.

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Two new types of stock index futures were put to trading on Thursday on the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) in Shanghai.
They are the Shanghai Stock Exchange 50 A-Share Index (SSE50 index) futures and CSI Smallcap 500 index (CSI500 index) futures. They are designed to allow investors to bet on and profit from either gains or declines in the equity market, through buying or selling contracts of the two stock indexes at a present value on an agreed date.
China used to have only one stock index futures - Hushen 300 index futures for trading.
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We analyse two big currencies in USDCAD and USDJPY. When looking at the USDJPY there are some good lessons to learn. There is a strong correlation between the pair and the Nikkei 225. Using this similarity could suggest and increase up to 127! However there is an even strong correlation between the pair and the US10YR treasury yields.
When looking at the US10YR, Alejandro Zambrano, Chief Market Analyst, Amana Capital tells us that it has been a better indicator of the currency movements. If we want to know what is going to happen to the US10YR then it is about the fed, the US economy, the Trump tax deals etc. This will dictate the currency pair.
When we look at the variables you have to look at the middle. So above 113 and below 127. After having traded in the range for so long, it is very likely that it will breakout. Matt Brown from the Core Finance team even suggests shorting the Nikkei and using the currency as a hedge. Alejandro suggests that the breakout will happen when the 113/114 level is broken and could reach the highs of 118 seen at the start of the year.
Moving across the pacific Alejandro takes a look at USDCAD. This currency pair is moving around a lot due to the macro data coming out. When discussing correlation Alej tells us that there is a strong connection with swap rates. This is basically a comparison between Mortgage rates (2YR Canada and 2YR US). You can see the currency moving lower on the disappointing news from the US. the Fed Rate rise being pushed back is visible in this comparison chart.
Alejandro moves on to show us an even stronger correlation than the swap rates. He suggests looking at the reciprocal of the currency compared to Crude. When crude goes up, the Canadian Dollar goes up. Strong data from Canada will help make the CAD stronger. So a solution would be to short USDCAD to see an uptick if Crude continues to rise. Alejandro signs off by telling us that the CAD has not stabilised to the new crude oil prices. So we can expect to see some convergence here.
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" Gold is Money. Everything else is credit. "﻿ - J.P. Morgan, testifying to Congress in 1912
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As Roman philosopher, Marcus Tullius Cicero, wisely said, "Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide." Cicero's advice applies to life as well as when investing in gold.
"We put a lot of messages into the marketplace, but the one we stress most when it comes to gold is moderation. Don't try to get rich with gold because the corresponding risk is simply too high. Gold is a volatile asset whose daily price action can be far more dramatic than blue-chip stocks and many other asset classes."

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Within the international category of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), investors can limit exposure to four specific regions that focus on Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia (EAFE). Generally speaking, these types of funds can be volatile, due to the performance of equity markets as well as exchange rates. There are, however, a handful of ETFs that are managed to limit the downside volatility of bear markets while participating in the price appreciation that takes place during bull markets. The following are three funds structured for both types of markets.
iShares MSCI EAFE Minimum Volatility ETF
With $6.46 billion in assets under management (AUM), the iShares MSCI EAFE Minimum Volatility ETF (NYSEARCA: EFAV) is the largest ETF in this category. To minimize volatility, the fund is structured with dividend-paying companies and diverse holdings in defensive sectors. For example, the allocation to technology was 20% that of industrials, as of April 16, 2016.
Japan leads the country allocation with 28.56%, followed by the United Kingdom at 23.79% and Switzerland with 10.48%. The largest sector allocations are financials at 21.72%, consumer non-cyclicals with 16.13% and health care at 15.94%. The largest positions in the fund are Swiss Re AG (OTC: SSREY) with 1.51%, Nestle S.A. (OTC: NSRGY) at 1.46%, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NYSE: NTT) with 1.43%.
The iShares MSCI EAFE Minimum Volatility ETF has a price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) of 18.36 and a price-to-book ratio (P/B) of 1.95, and it pays a distribution yield of 2.38%. The fund has a three-year beta of 0.69, representing volatility 31% lower than the broad market. The three-year annualized return is 6.73%.
SPDR MSCI EAFE Quality Mix ETF
With a weighting system based on value, low beta versus the broad market and fundamental quality, the SPDR MSCI EAFE Quality Mix ETF (NYSEARCA: QEFA) takes the steps necessary to protect share prices in bear markets and capture gains in bull markets. The screening process for the fund, like the other ETFs in this group, underweights technology stocks while favoring sectors that exhibit lower levels of volatility and pay higher dividends.
The largest country holdings are the U.K. with 24.93%, Japan at 21.24% and Switzerland with 12.43%. In its sector allocations, fund favors financials at 20.84%, consumer non-cyclicals with 15.94% and health care at 14.52%. The three largest holdings are Swiss firms: Nestle S.A. at 2.53%, Roche Holding Ltd. (OTC: RHHBY) with 2.31% and Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS) at 2.05%.
The SPDR MSCI EAFE Quality Mix ETF has a P/E of 19.28 and a P/B of 1.82 and pays a dividend of 2.92%. The fund was launched June 4, 2014, and does not have a three-year beta rating. The one-year return is negative 5.4%.
WisdomTree International Hedged Quality Dividend Growth ETF
With a dividend-weighted portfolio that is also currency-hedged for U.S. investors, the WisdomTree International Hedged Quality Dividend Growth ETF (NYSE

This morning, the S&P 500 Index e-mini futures (ES-U3) are trading higher by 5.75 points to 1694.00 per contract. Traders and investors seem to be in a better mood before the opening bell. All of the major European stock indexes are trading higher signaling very little fear in the marketplace. The major problem for stocks is still coming from Asia. Last night, the important Nikkei 225 Index (Japan) declined by 1.58 percent. The Nikkei 225 Index has now dropped by over 5.50 percent over the past two trading sessions, this is not a sign of a healthy market. Traders should watch for early volatility in the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund (NYSEARCA:DXJ), and the iShares MSCI Japan Index (ETF) (NYSEARCA:EWJ).

Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about Japan's second largest bank, Japan Post's plan to plow 100 billion Yen in stocks over the next five to ten years.
100 billion Yen is basically about 904 million US dollars.
John breaks down how completely insane this move is as banks continue to invest in stocks and risk depositors' money.
As John says,
"The old banks, they had the deposits and they borrowed out a fractional amount to car loans to house loans to business loans, etc.
That's their business, it's not to invest in the stock market.
Stock market investing is for us as investors or people on Wall Street, or if you actually invest in hedgefunds, ETFs or mutual funds.
A bank's job is not investing in stocks.
Now you're creating a bank that depositors thought they had their money safe in creating massive amounts of risk on the volatility of stocks. It's insane.
It's not a bank anymore, it's closer to being a hedge fund or a mutual fund where you just basically have shares.
Before they used to have the savings and loans companies and they were broken up into savings banks and investment banks.
The problem is now the banks can do whatever they want with your money and invest in derivatives with the money you borrow to the banks. Banks are not making any money on the deposits anymore. They're making next to zero and with negative interest rates they don't even care about that anymore. They do whatever they want, investing your money in whatever they want to risk it on."
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Talking Points:
• Equities stumbled Tuesday from a slight slip for the S&P 500 to a step correction from DAX and FTSE100
• Volatility via the VIX Index would nevertheless close for the 41st time below 10 - a historically extreme level
• The RBA's chance to drive the Aussie has come and gone, traders should be as mindful of the RBNZ decision ahead
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Richard Jones, Managing Editor for Hedge Ratio Analysis, uses the hedge ratios to offer the outlook key global indices – S&P 500, DJIA and the Nasdaq.
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"Indices quite vulnerable, build up to rollover next week"
"DJIA very compliant, middle of a 1000 point wide ratio, explains why it moves more than the others"
"NASDAQ broke 4275 then stagnated in the 4300, too far ahead of itself, being hit with futures, trying to break 4300 and did it yesterday, expecting ratio to change today"
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Europe's stock markets have begun to fall sharply, in reaction to Wall's Street's turbulent trading on Tuesday.
Both the Dow and Nasdaq fell 500 points at one point after software giant Microsoft were found guilty of monopolising the software market.
In response Germany's stock market lost over three percent of its value by midday on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, US stocks had one of their most turbulent days in history, as investors fled technology shares following a court case ruling against the world's biggest software company, Microsoft.
By Wednesday morning the jitters hit Frankfurt where the market's key DAX index lost two point six percent of its value by midday.
Overall shares are down three point nine percent.
Some investors are reported to have gone bargain hunting, buying telecoms, media and technology shares at knock-down prices in the hope of a market recovery.
One German bank director believe the drop is more of a correction of the market than a crash.
SOUNDBITE: (German)
"You can't call this a crash. It's a serious correction of course, the correction of the market which was long awaited for which happened today, but I wouldn't call it a crash."
SUPER CAPTION: Fidel Peter Helmec, director of Huack Anshauser bank
He believes Frankfurt can regain some of its losses by the end of Wednesday's trading.
SOUNDBITE: (German)
"Yesterday in the States we had a very bad development with the NASDAQ and Dow Jones which went down heavily, but then it regained a little bit by the end of the day. This of course makes pressure on us, but I expect that by the end of the trading day we are going to have a similar experience to the States and the value of the DAX will go up a little bit."
SUPER CAPTION: Fidel Peter Helmec, director of Huack Anshauser bank
Losses on the NASDAQ and Dow Jones were also felt in Asia where most stocks closed lower on Wednesday as investors sold telecom and technology-related stocks.
The losses on the world's markets come as London and Frankfurt stock exchanges are believed to be holding talks about a possible merger.
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Contracts on financial instruments were introduced in the 1970s by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and these instruments became hugely successful and quickly overtook commodities futures in terms of trading volume and global accessibility to the markets. This innovation led to the introduction of many new futures exchanges worldwide, such as the London International Financial Futures Exchange in 1982 (now Euronext.liffe), Deutsche Terminbörse (now Eurex) and the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM). Today, there are more than 90 futures and futures options exchanges worldwide trading to include:
CME Group (formerly CBOT and CME) -- Currencies, Various Interest Rate derivatives (including US Bonds); Agricultural (Corn, Soybeans, Soy Products, Wheat, Pork, Cattle, Butter, Milk); Indices (Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ Composite, S&P 500, etc.); Metals (Gold, Silver)
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE Futures Europe) - formerly the International Petroleum Exchange trades energy including crude oil, heating oil, gas oil (diesel), refined petroleum products, electric power, coal, natural gas, and emissions
NYSE Euronext - which absorbed Euronext into which London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange or LIFFE (pronounced 'LIFE') was merged. (LIFFE had taken over London Commodities Exchange ("LCE") in 1996)- softs: grains and meats. Inactive market in Baltic Exchange shipping. Index futures include EURIBOR, FTSE 100, CAC 40, AEX index.
South African Futures Exchange - SAFEX
Sydney Futures Exchange
Tokyo Stock Exchange TSE (JGB Futures, TOPIX Futures)
Tokyo Commodity Exchange TOCOM
Tokyo Financial Exchange - TFX - (Euroyen Futures, OverNight CallRate Futures, SpotNext RepoRate Futures)
Osaka Securities Exchange OSE (Nikkei Futures, RNP Futures)
London Metal Exchange - metals: copper, aluminium, lead, zinc, nickel, tin and steel
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE Futures U.S.) - formerly New York Board of Trade - softs: cocoa, coffee, cotton, orange juice, sugar
New York Mercantile Exchange CME Group- energy and metals: crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, coal, propane, gold, silver, platinum, copper, aluminum and palladium
Dubai Mercantile Exchange
JFX Jakarta Futures Exchange
Montreal Exchange (MX) (owned by the TMX Group) also known in French as Bourse De Montreal: Interest Rate and Cash Derivatives: Canadian 90 Days Bankers' Acceptance Futures, Canadian government bond futures, S&P/TSX 60 Index Futures, and various other Index Futures
Korea Exchange - KRX
Singapore Exchange - SGX - into which merged Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX)
ROFEX - Rosario (Argentina) Futures Exchange
NCDEX - National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange, India
Futures traders are traditionally placed in one of two groups: hedgers, who have an interest in the underlying asset (which could include an intangible such as an index or interest rate) and are seeking to hedge out the risk of price changes; and speculators, who seek to make a profit by predicting market moves and opening a derivative contract related to the asset "on paper", while they have no practical use for or intent to actually take or make delivery of the underlying asset. In other words, the investor is seeking exposure to the asset in a long futures or the opposite effect via a short futures contract.
Speculators typically fall into three categories: position traders, day traders, and swing traders (swing trading), though many hybrid types and unique styles exist. With many investors pouring into the futures markets in recent years controversy has risen about whether speculators are responsible for increased volatility in commodities like oil, and experts are divided on the matter. [7]
An example that has both hedge and speculative notions involves a mutual fund or separately managed account whose investment objective is to track the performance of a stock index such as the S&P 500 stock index. The Portfolio manager often "equitizes" cash inflows in an easy and cost effective manner by investing in (opening long) S&P 500 stock index futures. This gains the portfolio exposure to the index which is consistent with the fund or account investment objective without having to buy an appropriate proportion of each of the individual 500 stocks just yet. This also preserves balanced diversification, maintains a higher degree of the percent of assets invested in the market and helps reduce tracking error in the performance of the fund/account. When it is economically feasible (an efficient amount of shares of every individual position within the fund or account can be purchased), the portfolio manager can close the contract and make purchases of each individual stock.
The social utility of futures markets is considered to be mainly in the transfer of risk, and increased liquidity between traders with different risk and time preferences, from a hedger to a speculator, for example.
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MAX KEISER Debates Panic GOLD Sell-Off. Is It Still A Safe Haven And An Inflation Hedge ?
Gold rose on Wednesday after a slide to two-year lows this week attracted Asian interest in buying the physical metal, but sentiment was still severely shaken by the biggest two-day loss in 30 years.
Investors continued to exit gold-backed exchange-traded funds, concerned that the metal has lost its shine as a safe haven and inflation hedge.
Gold rose 0.7 percent to $1,383.15 an ounce by 0755 EDT (1155 GMT), having tumbled to its lowest since January 2011 at $1,321.35 on Tuesday. The market fell by a combined $225 on Friday and Monday, which compares with a total trading range of $260 in 2012.
It is down about 18 percent so far this year after 12 years of gains.
"We bounced a little bit in the past two sessions, and I suspect there was quite good buying coming out of Asia from places like China and potentially India," Natixis analyst Nic Brown said.
"I think that at this point a new range will be established. We can't go back to the old $1,500-$1,580 range because investor sentiment has fallen, but it still early days to understand at which levels people will feel they can sell again."
Asian physical buying pushed up premiums for gold bars in Singapore to their highest in 18 months at $1.70 an ounce to spot London prices, but demand from top consumer India was surprisingly low despite the wedding season, traders said.
India celebrates major gold-buying festival Akshaya Tritiya next month, and the wedding season will continue until early June. Indian parents typically give gold jewellery to their daughters when they marry. In wider markets, European shares sank by over 1 percent as investors positioned for sluggish growth in the euro area, outweighing monetary policy easing in the United States and Japan.
U.S. GOLD FUTURES FALL
"The market is absorbing the negative impact of the Cyprus gold sale news, it is a disproportionate response to what is a relatively small amount of gold, but is more to do with setting a precedent and if selling gold becomes part of any European bailout you have to look at how much metal other countries' central banks hold," Natixis' Brown said.
Tokyo gold futures regained strength as the yen weakened, the Nikkei rebounded and physical gold buying picked up. The most active contract, currently February 2014, sank to its lowest since August on Tuesday.
Spot platinum fell 1.2 percent to $1,425.75 an ounce, having touched its lowest since last August in the previous session. Palladium was down 1 percent to $670.97.
Silver fell 0.9 percent to $23.15 an ounce after dropping 12.6 percent on Monday.
But that was really a meaningless statement designed to to scare people out of ETFs and free up a lot of physical gold so certain entities who are short of physical gold could get assistance. That's what has happened here.
The situation is bad all the way around in the West, and the fact that the Germans have given the Americans 7 years to return a small portion of their gold reserves back to the Bundesbank is incredible. It is especially revealing when it comes to the desperation that is really going on behind the scenes.
It is going to take the United States 7 years to unwind the leases on just that 300 tons of gold, never mind the other 1,100+ tons of gold the US supposedly has stored for Germany. But it will take that long just to get that little bit of physical gold back to Germany.
I would also like to point out two very important developments taking place in Switzerland. A movement inside Switzerland has already acquired 100,000 signatures for two things to be put on the ballot. The first one would eliminate any future sales by the Swiss National Bank.
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The ability to use equity index futures to effectively hedge your stock portfolio is a skill every trader should have. By using a combination of equity index futures such as e-mini S&P, e-mini NASDAQ 100, and e-mini Dow futures, you can more effectively adjust exposure in one sector of the market while adjusting it in another. Dan Gramza and Pete Mulmat as take you through the mechanics of intermarket relationships and how you can use this information to better manage your trading.
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UPDATE: Margin Calls Trigger Panic Sell-Off in China Stock Market
Mainland shares suffered some of their biggest falls in years yesterday, as investors dumped stocks indiscriminately to meet margin calls.
The blue chip CSI300 Index fell 7.9 per cent to 4,336.19 - its biggest drop in seven years - and the Shanghai Composite index lost 7.4 per cent, or 334.14 points, to close at 4,192.87.
But the worst damage was in Shenzhen, where the city's benchmark index fell 7.87 per cent, or 213.7 points, to 2,502.9, officially entering bear market territory after a fall of more than 20 per cent from a June 12 high.
In the past two weeks, 14 trillion yuan (HK$17.4 trillion) has been wiped off the value of mainland stocks - some 20 per cent of mainland market capitalisation and three times the value of Apple, the company with the world's biggest market cap.
Speaking at a briefing yesterday, China Securities Regulatory Commission spokesman Zhang Xiaojun hinted that the central government would not be intervening to staunch the outflow of funds. "China's ongoing reforms, ample liquidity in the market, and a shift from bank deposits into the capital markets among household savings, will continue to underpin a vibrant stock market, even after a few big corrections in the market recently," Zhang said.
Almost 80 per cent of index constituent members fell yesterday, with nearly 2,000 of the roughly 2,800 listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen slumping by their 10 per cent daily limit.
A semi-annual audit of listed firms, including banks and brokerage houses, meant companies who trade the markets had had to dump stocks to return cash to their balance sheets, compounding the overall sell-off, said Anne Stevenson-Yang, founder of J Capital Research.
Despite a fortnight of heavy selling, both Shanghai and Shenzhen are still posting healthy gains so far this year. Shanghai is up 29.6 per cent year to date and Shenzhen is up 78.6 per cent.
Outstanding margin loans totalled 2.2 trillion yuan on Wednesday as margin calls forced investors to cut 61.5 billion yuan in leverage in the first half of the week as shares fell, data showed.
Among the few firms to post a gain for the day, brokerage giant Guotai Junan Securities soared 44 per cent to 28.30 yuan on its first trading day in Shanghai.
Mainland internet users painted a pessimistic picture of the mainland market's prospects in posting on Weibo micro-blogs.
"I beg you [the stock market] to come back to life," said actress Wang Lin.
Xiao Lei, a finance blogger, said: "China's stock markets can't stand attacks from short sellers like George Soros and Muddy Waters, as there is virtually no market-based regulatory oversight."
In Hong Kong a more orderly sell-off saw the Hang Seng close down 1.78 per cent, or 481.88 points, to 26,663.87, its biggest one-day fall in almost a month. The H-share index of mainland companies dropped 2.82 per cent, or 379.71 points, to 13,088.19.
Regional markets also fell, taking their cue from Wall Street amid concerns over drawn-out talks between Greece and its creditors. Japan's Nikkei 225 slipped 0.31 per cent to 20,706.15 and Australia's ASX 200 dropped 1.54 per cent to 5,545.9.

Gold topped $1,400 an ounce on Thursday, poised for its highest close in more than two weeks, on the back of a weaker dollar, downward revision to U.S. growth in the first quarter and rise in weekly jobless claims.
Strong demand from Asia as well as a rise in gold holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust GLD +1.35% were also key supportive factors for the metal, analysts said.
Gold for August delivery GCQ3 +1.56% rose $23.30, or 1.7%, to $1,415.10 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices haven't closed above $1,400 since May 14, according to FactSet data. On Wednesday they settled higher by $12.10, or 0.9%.
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Wednesday's move higher for gold was aided by weakness in the U.S. dollar DXY -0.74% , which lost significant ground against the euro EURUSD +0.8558% .
Weakness in the dollar tends to provide support for dollar-denominated commodities such as gold as it makes them less expensive for holders of other currencies to buy them.
"The greenback fell sharply after the first quarter GDP, [weekly] unemployment claims and pending home sales all disappointed expectations," said Fawad Razaqzada, technical analyst at GFT Markets, in a daily note. "This helped to boost the appeal of gold and silver, which continue to attract solid demand in the physical market."
July silver SIN3 +1.55% rose 46 cents, or 2.1%, at $22.92 an ounce.
The U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.4% in the first quarter, down from an initial estimate of 2.5%, data from the Commerce Department.
And the Labor Department reported that the number of U.S. workers who filed new applications for unemployment benefits rose by a more-than-expected 10,000 last week to 354,000.
From here, gold has room to rally further, said Richard Hastings, macro strategist at Global Hunter Securities. But he points out that "all of these rallies in gold are small and subject to reversals because the speculative mechanisms from currency carry trades are fleeting and shallow."
Asia buys
The gold market has had some support from physical buying in Asia, analysts have said. Asian gold demand from this April to June is expected to reach a quarterly record, the World Gold Council said Wednesday, according to Reuters.
"Store-of-wealth buyers [in Asia] see gold there as a bargain and are scooping it up with both hands," said Mark O'Byrne, research director at GoldCore in Dublin.
In Singapore and Hong Kong, local premiums for 1-kilogram gold bars have shot to record levels this spring, and the world's heaviest gold-buying nation, India, is on track for record quarterly imports, according to the WGC, wrote Adrian Ash, head of research at BullionVault in a daily update.
Outflows from gold exchange-traded funds and cuts in forecast for gold prices have recently weighed on the precious metal, which is on pace to fall of roughly 4% in May. Earlier this month, it had been on track for a decline of more than 7%.
But gold holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust rose to 1,013.15 metric tons on Wednesday, up from 1,012.25 metric tons a day earlier.
As had been said before, "once the sales from the SPDR Gold ETF ceased, the weight of Asian demand would turn the gold price around," said Julian Phillips, founder of and contributor to GoldForecaster.com.
"If there are no more sales to come, then the record short position on Comex will prove a driving force to send the gold price higher as these shorts are closed and as the major banks and hedge funds go into the market to buy their gold back," he said.
Earlier, gold gained after another volatile day for Japanese equities.The Nikkei Stock Average JP:NIK -5.15% , which had been dropping throughout most of Thursday's session, closed down 5.2%.
The drop in the Nikkei is "creating concerns that we may see 'risk on' return with a vengeance to other markets — and this may be leading to diversification into gold," said O'Byrne.
Elsewhere in the metals complex Thursday, July copper HGN3 +0.58% rose 2 cents, or 0.6%, to $3.32 a pound.
September palladium PAU3 +1.33% tacked on $11.50, or 1.5%, to $761.60 an ounce and July platinum PLN3 +2.02% rose $27.80, or 1.9%, to $1,480.80 an ounce. Both metals fell in the previous session

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Does it seem as though everyone is bearish on Real Vision these days? Grant Williams rounds up some of the more notable bulls in the market to assess their current views and what signals they are looking for, to establish how far this rally can go and how investors should be positioned. Published 29 November, 2017
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Grant Williams: One of the founding principles of Real Vision when we set this up was to bring balance and truth to finance. And recently, one of the most frequent requests we've had is to bring some balance, as there's been a lot of bearish commentary on the site. Now again, we haven't been out seeking bearish commentary, just more and more people that we've spoken to have been bearish. So we're going to bring back Mark Dow, the founder of Dow Global Advisors.
Mark had a great interview back in 2015, at which point he was extremely bullish. And we're also going to bring Tom Lee, the co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors. And we're going to hear from Mark Ritchie II, who's the managing partner at RTM Capital Advisors.
But all three of these guys are bullish, constructively so. So we wanted to get a sense from them as to where they think the market stands now and just update this bullish side of the argument. And we'll kick things off with Mark Ritchie II.
Mark Ritchie II: So I'm bullish on the US equity markets specifically and the global equity markets. But before I get into that, I want to lay out that just about everything I say has to be framed with the tactical perspective, and a bent towards risk reward. So my background is in trading and everything comes through the lens of risk reward.
So right now, I just don't see any real reward to being in 100% cash or being short the equity markets. So if we start from there, then I want to kind of roll back and look at what has the bear argument been for at least 24 months, if not 72 to 128 months or keep going. Has really, in my mind, if you were to put it on the screen, it would be premise one; stocks are overvalued based on some classical metrics, say PE. Premise two would be, when stocks are overvalued based on whatever metric you use, markets either don't go up or go down. Conclusion, therefore, you should be in cash or maybe consider being short.
And I think it's a valid argument. The problem is premise 2 is false. There's no reason to believe that when PEs are at a certain level, or CAPEs, or a lot of these traditional metrics are at what people claim are nosebleed levels, that stocks either don't continue to go up or go down.
So in my view, I would just say that whole bearish thesis is not convincing to me. Again, if you pair everything in terms of risk reward, I don't think we have as many of the downside risks as a lot of people say. Furthermore, if we back up say 12 to 24 months, and I would ask anyone to envision, OK, if you had a market, any market, that is in a long term uptrend, and then you had a 12 to 18 month consolidation where it corrected 20% to 25% and then broke out in the face of extremely negative pessimism, headlines, and negative sentiment, which way should you go?
Should you fade the breakout? Or go with it? And a trader will say, you absolutely buy that breakout and go against the crowd. Well, we're sitting here on about the one-year anniversary of exactly that. I think we had a bear market in 2015. It has been the worst, I guess, advertised or publicized bear market certainly in my career, maybe ever. And the reasons I say that, is everybody likes to use this 20% bogey on the S&P or the Dow, which I think is a really silly definition when we had a more than 25% correction in the average stock-- say I'm speaking of the US broadly, the Russell 2000, the Value Line Geometric.

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Tokyo, Japan - 8 July 2008
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2. Close up of the graph indicating today's market
3. Exchange board
4. Zoom out to a wide shot of the board
5. Pan down of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
6. Various of street with the stock exchange board in the back
7. Close up of the board
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Taipei, Taiwan - 8 July 2008
9. Various people passing stock index on TV screen outside stock exchange
10. Various interiors of stock exchange
11. Various of stock index
12. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Yuan Tsong-ling, Deputy manager of Yuanta Stock Exchange:
"Rumours about investors losing confidence in Wall Street caused Hong Kong market to drop more than 700 points. That is why Taiwan stock market has a big drop today."
Taipei, Taiwan - Recent
13. Various interiors of the stock exchange
STORYLINE:
Asian markets fell sharply on Tuesday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 diving below the 13,000 mark for the first time since April and Taiwan's main stock benchmark plummeting nearly four percent, weighed down by big losses in the financial sector Japanese news agency Kyodo reported.
The Nikkei stock average plunged 326.94 points, or 2.45 percent, from Monday's close to end at 13,033.10, the lowest finish since April 15.
It dropped to 12,984.54 at one point.
Shares in Tokyo had just rebounded on Monday from a 12-session slide, with the key stock index snapping its longest losing streak in more than a half-century.
The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was down 29.29 points, or 2.23 percent, to 1,283.51.
Stocks declined almost across the board, led by mining, consumer finance and securities issues, with electric and gas being the only gainer.
Sharp falls in the Hong Kong and Indian markets also affected the Tokyo market.
Weak global markets and soaring energy prices have also hit markets hard.
Oil however held steady Tuesday in Asia as a weaker dollar and renewed buying interest helped support prices after a plunge of nearly four US dollars in the previous session.
Leaders from the ongoing Group of Eight (G8) summit in northern Japan expressed concerns about rising oil, food prices and called for more oil output.
In Asian currency trade, the dollar was weaker against the euro and yen compared with values seen Monday in New York.
The euro was holding at 1.5736 US dollars, while the dollar was buying about 106.40 yen.
A falling dollar has helped boost oil prices around 50 percent this year as investors often buy commodities such as oil as a hedge against inflation when the greenback weakens.
Meanwhile Taiwan's main stock benchmark plummeted nearly four percent Tuesday, weighed down by big losses in the financial sector.
The Weighted Price Index of the Taiwan Stock Exchange fell 289.26 points, or 3.94 percent, to close at 7,051.85, its lowest level in 18 months.
The fall followed overnight weakness on Wall Street, which was buffeted by renewed concerns over the health of leading financial institutions and the extent of already considerable losses in the real estate sector.
"Rumours about investors losing confidence in Wall Street caused Hong Kong market to drop more than 700 points. That is why Taiwan stock market has a big drop today," said Yuan Tsong-ling, Deputy manager of Yuanta Stock Exchange.
Financial stocks led Taiwan's losses Tuesday, with the subindex for the sector dropping 5.1 percent.
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Michael Oliver has been analyzing market momentum for over 25 years. He started his firm, Momentum Structural Analysis after spotting the turning point ahead of the 1987 stock market crash. He believes that today is one of the most exciting times in his career, since all four major asset classes are undergoing a momentum change. Oliver forecasts that bonds will sell off and U.S. equities will suffer, but thinks there are some incredible opportunities in other assets that should get investors very excited. Filmed on March 12th, 2018.
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Tres Knippa has been trading commodities for many years. He believes that shorting the Yen and Japanese Government Bonds is the trade of a lifetime. He sees the current Ponzi economy unwinding as we speak. The Yen and all other currencies have been declining against the Greenback. Pretty soon the Yuan peg will be history. There's more turmoil down the pike. Be prepared and be poised to profit from it. And owning some precious metals isn't a bad idea either.
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